The map to the right depicts the geographic regions of eclipse visibility.
Click on the map to enlarge it.
For an explanation of the features appearing in the map,
see Key to Solar Eclipse Maps.

The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on 2038 Jul 02 at 13:32:55 TD (13:31:37 UT1).
This is 6.0 days after the Moon reaches apogee.
During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Gemini.
The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 1429.

The eclipse belongs to Saros 137 and is number 37 of 70 eclipses in the series.
All eclipses in this series occur at the Moons ascending node.
The Moon moves southward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma decreases.

The annular solar eclipse of 2038 Jul 02 is preceded two weeks earlier by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 2038 Jun 17,
and it is followed two weeks later by a penumbral lunar eclipse on 2038 Jul 16.

Eclipse Predictions

Predictions for the
Annular Solar Eclipse of 2038 Jul 02
were generated using the
JPL DE406
solar and lunar ephemerides.
The lunar coordinates were calculated with respect to the Moon's Center of Mass.
The predictions are given in both Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TD)
and Universal Time (UT1).
The parameter ΔT is used to convert between these two times (i.e., UT1 = TD - ΔT).
ΔT has a value of
78.3
seconds for this eclipse.